Allison Pearson Boeken

Een jonge vrouw probeert haar veeleisende baan te combineren met de zorg voor haar gezin met twee kleine kinderen.

Kate Reddy is back! This is the follow-up to the international bestseller I Don't Know How She Does It, the novel that defined modern life for women everywhere. This time she's juggling teenagers, aging parents and getting back into the workplace, and every page will have you laughing and thinking: It's not just me. Kate Reddy is counting down the days until she is fifty, but not in a good way. Fifty, in Kate's mind, equals invisibility. And with hormones that have her in shackles, teenage children who need her there but won't talk to her and ailing parents who aren't coping, Kate is in the middle of a sandwich that she isn't even allowed to eat because of the calories. She's back at work after a big break at home, because somebody has to bring home the bacon now that her husband Rich has dropped out of the rat race to master the art of mindfulness. But just as Kate is finding a few tricks to get by in her new workplace, her old client and flame Jack reappears - complicated doesn't even begin to cover it. How Hard Can It Be? is a coming of age story for turning fifty. It's about so much more than a balancing act; it's about finding out who you are and what you need to feel alive when you've got used to being your own last priority. And every page will leave you feeling that there's a bit of Kate Reddy in all of us.

A novel by a writer who understands the female psyche, and observes the male with a wary eye. This novel, set in the '70s and the present day, is about teen obsession, rites of passage and one girl's infactuation with David Cassidy. It's about love in many forms, but first love in particular, how it shapes us and imprints us

Für alle, die angesichts ihres Alltags fast den Verstand verlieren, aber nie den Humor. Eine Familienkomödie, die aus dem Wahnsinn ein Lesevergnügen zaubert.Kate Reddy steht vor ihrem 50. Geburtstag und fragt sich, wo ihr Leben geblieben ist. Dabei ist das Alter längst nicht ihre einzige Sorge: Kate plagt sich mit zwei Teenagern, kümmert sich um kränkelnde Schwiegereltern und eine Mutter, die zunehmend auf Hilfe angewiesen ist. Und sie sucht den Wiedereinstieg ins Berufsleben, da ihr Mann beschlossen hat, dem Hamsterrad Ade zu sagen und die Kunst der Achtsamkeit zu erlernen. Als sich dann auch noch eine verflossene Liebe bei Kate meldet, wird es kompliziert ...Liebevoll ausgestattete Ausgabe mit Leinenrücken und Lesebändchen. Weitere berührende Wunderraum-Geschichten finden Sie in unserem kostenlosen aktuellen Leseproben-E-Book »Einkuscheln und loslesen – Bücher für kurze Tage und lange Nächte«